GEODE – Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid

GEODE – Sharing Occupational Data Through The Grid

Dr. Paul Lambert, Dr. Vernon Gayle, Prof. Ken Prandy, Prof. Richard Sinnott, Prof. Ken Turner, Koon Leai Larry TanUniversity of Stirling

Scope

About GEODEOccupational InformationGEODE Objectives Architecture Prototype

Future Work

About GEODE

UK ESRC Grant RES-149-25-1015 E-Social Science Programme Duration 18 months

Collaboration University of Stirling

Department of Applied Social Science Department of Computing Science and Mathematics

University of Glasgow, National e-Science Centre

University of Cardiff

Occupational Information

Many statistical analyses involve/require occupational informationVariety of occupational coding schemes Occupational scheme linking is a common

practice for researchers No standard approach to linking

Statistical package syntax files (different formats) Index tables lookup

No standard way of accessing/searching Accessible via URL, email Lack of good description No metadata annotation (semantics)

GEODE – Objectives

Create a virtual community of occupational information researchers Gateway for occupational information Data abstraction Uniform access to resources

Accessible via a portalOccupational data curation Annotation of data using DDI

Occupational matching services e.g. Linking surveyed data to CAMSIS scores

GEODE - Objectives

Occupational Matching Services (Grid Services) for various scale measures, e.g. CAMSIS Ganzeboom Hakim

GEODE - Architecture

VO members can deploy own data services, also occupational matching services Scalable Distributed

Possible application for other types of social science data Annotation with DDI Custom services can be deployed

GEODE – Prototype

Simple occupational matching servicesVO of Occupational Data ResourcesPortal for searching external resources

GEODE - Prototype

GEODE - Prototype

Windows environmentJavaGridSphere Portal FrameworkGlobus Toolkit 4 Index Service (Virtual Organization) OGSA-DAI WSRF (Data Access

Middleware) Custom OGSA-DAI resources and activities Accesses CSV, Relational data resources

GEODE - Prototype

Document Definition Initiative Annotate the data resources Searchable in index service

Occupational Matching Grid Services Checks if DDI of target resource is

compatible (e.g. category specified matches requirement)

Map occupational unit group to data Returns mapped/matched results

Future Work

Possible extension of VO to other social science related datasets With services

Variety of occupational data analysis services